Being one of the most innovative platform around, we take a look at the ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid, and the ECS SIMA A9S Platform Converter card. It’s back to the good old days where switching between AMD and Intel could be done without a new purchase! Click for more details, pictures, and benchmarks on this engineering marvel!

ECS, being one of the big names in the motherboard and notebook industry, has always been a name related to innovation. ECS has sent us a Hybrid product, the ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid.

Like what it’s name suggests, this board is really a hybrid board, with the combination of both AMD and Intel, together onto a single platform. Like all other “Extreme” family of products, this board is targeted towards the fickle-minded enthusiast. To be more exact, the ECS PF88 is an unified platform, with the capability of adding different SIMA expansion cards, effectively transforming from one platform to another. ECS had also sent us the SIMA A9S platform converter card, allowing the support of an AMD Athlon 64 939 pin based processor, to be used on this native Intel LGA 775 platform.

The unusually large ECS PF88 packaging. With such a size, of course it’s packed to the brim in terms of included accessories. We will talk about that in a while.